Thanks. Does the latest gfortran have this feature? Compiling your code above with GNU Fortran (GCC) 11.0.0 20200927 from equation.com, excluding the “error line”, I get
p.f90:9:16:
9 | import, only : x1 !<-- only x1 is imported from containing scope
| 1
Error: IMPORT statement at (1) only permitted in an INTERFACE body
p.f90:15:8:
15 | use m, only : sub1
| 1
Fatal Error: Cannot open module file 'm.mod' for reading at (1): No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
I may end up learning Fortran beyond F95 by asking for feature X and being told that it’s already in Fortran 2018. But now I do see section “5.20 Control of host association” in The new features of Fortran 2018 and will reread that document.